There is no guide but there is an action named Create Database Utility on the web resources page. It will help in the creation of a track and/or album database.

You still have to manually create your export sets which define which columns will appear in each database. You do this in Preferences - Export Sets. When you click on the + button to define a new set, you'll be presented with a few options to get you started.

Hopefully this helps. If you run into any snags or have particular questions, reach out again.

I just downloaded the Create Database Utility and it looks 99% as it does in the documentation. A line of descriptive text in the main panel is no longer displayed. I've also just run it and it works as expected.

Download the Create Database Utility from the resources web page and drag the zip file to Yate's main window's file list area. You will then have a folder named Create Database Utility in the Action Manager. Inside the folder there is an action of the same name. That's what you want to run.

The Utility has a help button which gives an overview and describes how to get at the full documentation.

You've created an action which look fine ... but if you're getting warned about no files being loaded, you're attempting to run it outside the Batch Processor. All Yate actions need loaded audio files in order to run. You can get around this rule by marking an action as Always in the Action Manager. That supplies a dummy file if none is provided.

Regardless, you don't want to run the action directly ... you want to run it from the Batch Processor which is started by the Batch Processor Wizard menu item on the Actions menu. You do not have to create an action, the Create Database Utility does everything for you and allows you to save different profiles.

There is lot's of help on running actions and the Batch Processor. There's additional documentation on the resources web page. From the Help menu, do a Search Yate Help. Enter Batch Processor.

Personally I think of genres as differently. I really don't care what genres are available online or preset when you purchase music. I have my own list of genres which I apply.

I you really want, you can use an Access Discogs statement with Master Matching. This requires no IDs and uses only the Album and Album Artist metadata. You can set the accuracy level. Using this you can extract the Discogs genre. Play with the statement ... there is a log option which returns info and doesn't change the files. If you need help reach out.